Can You Say Irony?

[mowens]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/08/middleeast/gaza-airdropped-aid-deaths-intl/index.html

[beej]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/08/middleeast/gaza-airdropped-aid-deaths-intl/index.html

With God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly

[CNCAppsJames]

How many dies in the Berlin Airlifts?

I just can't help but believe that 1)The deaths are a sham, 2)Gazans are TOTAL fucking morons that should be eliminated from the gene pool, 3)The dead Gazans (if there are any) were forced by Hamas to get under incoming airdrops.

My money is on 1 or 3.

#ChageMyMind

[CNCAppsJames]

With God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly

I saw that episode as a kid. I was 8 or 9... probably the funniest thing I'd seen on TV up to that point. If I had to guess, I'd say it aired in either '78 or '79.

[mowens]

In this video you can see one parachute that failed to open and is falling fast.

[RobertELee]

In this video you can see one parachute that failed to open and is falling fast.

Even the ones where the parachutes opened properly were falling fast.

[Jim at Gentex]

LOL

My bro-in-law spent his whole Army career in an Airborne Artillery unit, and they routinely dropped artillery pieces into an LZ via parachute.

I wouldn't stand anywhere near one of them sumbitches when it hit the ground either.   

He told me one time during Desert Storm they had an 8" Howitzer that landed so hard it actually bent the barrel. 

[gcode]

3)The dead Gazans (if there are any) were forced by Hamas to get under incoming airdrops.

Yes.. Hammas issued a warning yesterday forbidding the people of Gaza from cooperating with American relief efforts.
During the evacuations of Northern Gaza Hammas frequently machinegunned columns of refuges, then blamed the deaths
on Israel. Biden's relief pier is going to be an unmitigated disaster, and American service members will pay the price.
 
 

[gcode]

Biden's relief pier is going to be an unmitigated disaster, and American service members will pay the price.

and the only reason Biden is doing the relief effort is because his poll numbers with the Arab population in the swing state of Michigan are catastrophic.

Cliff Notes ..... Biden is buying votes with the lives of American GI's

[gcode]

Operation WTF

AKA, A long walk off a short pier.

How it is stupid? Let us count the ways...

The first and most obvious is that any food or other aid will not go to any starving Arab residents of Gaza. It will go to Hamas. That is how siege warfare has always worked and will always work. If the White House doesn't know this ancient truth, the Pentagon surely does. Nevertheless, this country will deliver supplies to terrorists.


U.S. Central Command announced that, on Saturday, "U.S. Army Vessel (USAV) General Frank S. Besson (LSV-1) from the 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary), 3rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command, XVIII Airborne Corps, departed Joint Base Langley-Eustis en route to the Eastern Mediterranean less than 36 hours after President Biden announced the U.S. would provide humanitarian assistance to Gaza by sea. Besson, a logistics support vessel, is carrying the first equipment to establish a temporary pier to deliver vital humanitarian supplies."

While that all sounds very impressive on TwitterX, CENTCOM left out one tiny detail: it will take the Besson about 60 days to arrive in the Eastern Med and begin assembling the pier.

That's two months, for those keeping score at home, and by that time I wouldn't be surprised if Israel were finishing up operations at Rafah in the south of Gaza.

Also, if you're a member of Israeli's war cabinet, you're looking at likely sites for Biden's stupid pier, and seriously considering ordering the IDF to take and hold them in the next few weeks. The Gaza coast is only 20 miles long, and the IDF already controls nearly half of it. Taking troops away from the main fighting in the cities to protect the coast will prolong the war — but Biden's stupid pier will do that anyway.

"What happens if the IDF controls the entire coast by the time we get there?" doesn't seem to be a question anyone at the White House bothered to ask, even as vital as it is.

Then there are all the practical things that can go wrong with three different armed groups with different goals and methods, all operating in close proximity. The best we can hope is the worst predictions don't come true.

So maybe Biden's Operation WTF (or whatever they're calling it) promises to be a ginormous clusterfark from top to bottom, but hey, at least the White House will have protected its left flank against accusations of supporting Israeli genocide, right?

Wrong.

The White House will quickly learn that there's no appeasing the cultural Marxists who hate the Jews and call Israel a colonial-settler state.

On second thought, I take that last part back. The White House already knows there's no appeasing the party's hardcore lefties. But they're making an obscenely stupid attempt, regardless, because they lack the imagination and guts to do something intelligent.

And so when faced with doing nothing or doing the stupid thing, these people will pick the stupid thing every time.

[ghuns]

Nothing Hamas and their benefactors want more than US soldiers, sailors, and/or Marines in range of their homemade rockets and suicide vests.

Way to go Joe.

[Incogneeto]

Nothing Hamas and their benefactors want more than US soldiers, sailors, and/or Marines in range of their homemade rockets and suicide vests.

Way to go Joe.

My thoughts exactly.

He should have just sent them back to the airport. In Afghanistan.

Or maybe The Embassy in Libya.

FSJB. (you will figure it out)

[ghuns]

I for one am shocked. Shocked I say.

[gcode]

I for one am shocked. Shocked I say.

and the first (and only) relief delivery made it 300 yards into Hamasistan before it was stolen by Hamas.

The first rule of siege warfare is that all relief supplies are stolen and used to feed fighting men.
Civilians see none of it and relief only prolongs the siege.

They also promised "no boots on the ground" which was a lie from the very start. Building something like this without putting people ashore is impossible. I'm really surprised there have been no casualties, but they wouldn't tell us if there were.
 

[RobertELee]

I for one am shocked. Shocked I say.

bUt trrrRUMP!!!!